Social determinants of health: Whose responsibility?

Health promotion: whose responsibility is it?

Oncology nurses often educate patients and encourage them to adopt a healthy lifestyle. Where does this responsibility begin and end? Another new year is upon us. Human nature encourages people to strive to do better. Consequently, each new year, millions of people resolve to make changes in their lives. This year I will . . . stop smoking, eat better, walk more, get a mammogram, reduce stress,...

Adaptation of health care for migrants: whose responsibility?

BACKGROUND In a context of increasing ethnic diversity, culturally competent strategies have been recommended to improve care quality and access to health care for ethnic minorities and migrants; their implementation by health professionals, however, has remained patchy. Most programs of cultural competence assume that health professionals accept that they have a responsibility to adapt to migr...

Care of Diabetes: Whose Responsibility?

SIR,-Many of the criticisms that Dr Jules Older levels against religious fundamentalists are undoubtedly justified (17 November, p 1359). He does, however, appear to run the risk of throwing out the baby with the bath water. Excessive and often misguided zeal is a characteristic of youth, and this is often accompanied by a narrow perspective of life, which is unduly critical of the views of oth...

Quality in health care: whose responsibility is it?

* This paper was commissioned for the CME Seminar held under the auspices of the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Clearwater, Florida, February 1216, 1992, but the author is solely responsible for the opinions expressed in it. t To whom requests for reprints should be addressed at 1739 Ivywood, Ann Arbor, MI 48103. My subject is billed as &dquo;Quality-Whos...

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